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House of Hohenzollern
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The House of Hohenzollern is a dynasty of former princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. The family arose in the area around the town of Hechingen in Swabia during the 11th century, the first ancestor of the Hohenzollerns was mentioned in 1061. They may have derived from the Burchardinger dynasty, the Hohenzollern family split into two branches, the Catholic Swabian branch and the Protestant Franconian branch, which later became the Brandenburg-Prussian branch. The Swabian branch ruled the principalities of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen until 1849, members of the Franconian branch became Margrave of Brandenburg in 1415 and Duke of Prussia in 1525. The Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia were ruled in personal union after 1618 and were called Brandenburg-Prussia, germanys defeat in World War I in 1918 led to the German Revolution. The Hohenzollerns were overthrown and the Weimar Republic was established, thus bringing an end to the German monarchy, Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia is the current head of the royal Prussian line, while Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern is the head of the princely Swabian line. Zollern, from 1218 Hohenzollern, was a county of the Holy Roman Empire and its ruling dynasty was first mentioned in 1061. The Hohenzollerns named their estates after Hohenzollern Castle in the Swabian Alps, the Hohenzollern Castle still belongs to the family today. According to the medieval chronicler Berthold of Reichenau, Burkhard I, Count of Zollern was born before 1025, the Zollerns received the comital title from Emperor Henry V in 1111. As loyal vassals of the Swabian Hohenstaufen dynasty, they were able to enlarge their territory. In 1218 the burgraviate passed to Fredericks younger son Conrad I, he became the ancestor of the Franconian Hohenzollern branch. 1150-1155 and 1160, Gotfried of Zimmern, 4th oldest son of Frederick I before 1171 – c,1200, Frederick III/I Count Frederick III of Zollern was a loyal retainer of the Holy Roman Emperors Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI. In about 1185 he married Sophia of Raabs, the daughter of Conrad II, after the death of Conrad II who left no male heirs, Frederick III was granted Nuremberg in 1192 as Burgrave Frederick I of Nuremberg-Zollern. Since then the name has been Hohenzollern. The younger brother, Conrad III, received the burgraviate of Nuremberg from his older brother Frederick IV in 1218, members of the Franconian line eventually became the Brandenburg-Prussian branch. The Franconian line later converted to Protestantism, the cadet Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern was founded by Conrad I, Burgrave of Nuremberg. Beginning in the 16th century, this branch of the family became Protestant and decided on expansion through marriage, the family supported the Hohenstaufen and Habsburg rulers of the Holy Roman Empire during the 12th to 15th centuries, being rewarded with several territorial grants. He ruled the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach after 1398, from 1420, he became Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach

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House Order of Hohenzollern
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The House Order of Hohenzollern was a dynastic order of knighthood of the House of Hohenzollern awarded to military commissioned officers and civilians of comparable status. Associated with the versions of the order were crosses and medals which could be awarded to lower-ranking soldiers. The House Order of Hohenzollern was instituted on December 5,1841 by joint decree of Prince Konstantin of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and these two principalities in southern Germany were Catholic collateral lines of the House of Hohenzollern, cousins to the Protestant ruling house of Prussia. On August 23,1851, after the two principalities had been annexed by Prussia, the order was adopted by the Prussian branch of the house. Also, although the two principalities had become a region of the Prussian kingdom, the princely lines continued to award the order as a house order. The Prussian version was known as the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern. The Princely House Order continued to be awarded, unofficially, after the fall of the German Monarchy, Prince Karl Antons second son, Karl Eitel Friedrich of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, had become prince and then king of Romania as Carol I. Carol I had died childless and was succeeded by his nephew Ferdinand I and this form of the order existed until the Romanian monarchy was abolished in 1947, King Michael also awarded a slightly altered order in exile. The Royal House Order of Hohenzollern came in the classes, Grand Commander Commander Knight Member Member was a lesser class for soldiers who were not officers. The Members Cross, especially swords, was a rare distinction for non-commissioned officers. Another decoration, the Members Eagle was often given as an award to lesser officials such as schoolteachers. The Eagles were solely civilian awards, and could not be awarded with swords, all other grades could be awarded with swords. When awarded with swords it was worn on the ribbon of the Iron Cross, all grades could be awarded with swords. During World War I, the grade of the Princely House Order was often awarded to officers. 40, a regiment raised in the principalities of Hohenzollern. Soldier in the regiments sister reserve and Landwehr regiments also received the decoration. Unlike the Royal House Order, awards of the Princely House Order were made on the ribbon of the order regardless of whether they were with or without swords. As with the Prussian and Hohenzollern versions, crossed swords could be used to indicate a wartime or combat award, the badge of the House Order of Hohenzollern was a cross pattée with convex edges and curved arms

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Miracle of the House of Brandenburg
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After the Battle of Kunersdorf, Frederick thought Prussia faced certain defeat. He wrote that it was a cruel reverse, Prussia had lost 19,000 soldiers and was left with 18,000. That day the Russian Field Marshal Saltykov and his army crossed the Oder, Field Marshal Daun was marching the rest of the Austrian army north from Saxony. All three forces aimed to march on Berlin, Frederick massed 33,000 men to defend Berlin against enemy forces which he estimated totalled 90,000. However now came what Frederick called the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg, the Austrians and the Russians proved reluctant to follow through their victory by occupying Berlin, and in September began withdrawing their forces. The Austrians and Russians had lost 20,000 men at Kunersdorf, also, one of Fredericks generals, his brother Prince Henry, was not involved in Kunersdorf and still posed a threat to the Austrians and Russians. By December 1761, after five years of war, the situation for Prussia turned bleak despite several tactical successes. Austrians controlling the hills in Saxony, the Imperials the same in Thuringia, all our fortresses vulnerable in Silesia, in Pomerania, Stettin, Kustrin, even Berlin, during the war the Prussians had lost 120 generals,1,500 officers and over 100,000 men. Most Prussians now supported peace and Frederick was trying to bring the Ottoman Empire into the war and her ally England was pressuring for a peace that would diminish Prussia. Then, in January 1762, Frederick received the news that the Empress Elizabeth of Russia had died on 5 January, morta la Bestia, wrote Frederick on 22 January. Her nephew Peter succeeded her and was an admirer of Frederick the Great. He therefore reversed Elizabeths anti-Prussian policy and negotiated peace with Prussia, with an armistice in March, near the end of World War II in April 1945, Berlin was again encircled, this time by Soviet armies. Says Carlyle, “wait ye a little while, and the days of good fortune stands behind the clouds, and soon will rise upon you. ”On 12 February the Czarina died. After reading this to Hitler, tears stood in the Führers eyes, however Krosigk misquotes Carlyle for the minister was the Count dArgenson rather than Finckenstein. Merely a few later, on April 12th,1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Krosigk wrote that We felt the wings of the Angel of History rustle through the room, could this be the long-desired change of fortune. Krosigk records Goebbels as saying that. for reasons of Historical Necessity and Justice, one of the staff officers had somewhat skeptically and ironically asked, What Czarina will die this time. That, Goebbels had replied, he could not say, then he had driven home, and had heard the news of Roosevelts death

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Prince of Orange
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Prince of Orange is a title originally associated with the sovereign Principality of Orange, in what is now southern France. Under the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713, Frederick William I of Prussia ceded the Principality of Orange to King Louis XIV of France, the title is traditionally borne by the heir apparent of the Dutch monarch. The title descends via absolute primogeniture since 1983, meaning that its holder can be either Prince or Princess of Orange, the Dutch royal dynasty, the House of Orange-Nassau, is not the only family to claim the title. Rival claims to the title have been made by German emperors and kings of the House of Hohenzollern, the current users of the title are Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange suo jure, Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, and Guy, Marquis de Mailly-Nesle. The Principality originated as the County of Orange, a fief in the Holy Roman Empire and his Occitan name is Guilhem, however, as a Frankish lord, he probably knew himself by the old Germanic version of Wilhelm. William also ruled as count of Toulouse, duke of Aquitaine, the chanson appears to incorporate material relating to William of Gellones battle at the Orbieu or Orbiel river near Carcassonne in 793 as well as to his seizure of the town of Orange. As the Empires boundaries retreated from those of the principality, the prince acceded to the rights that the Emperor formerly exercised. Orange ceased to exist as a realm, de facto. Although no longer descended from Louis-Charles, a branch of the Mailly family still claim the title today, in 1714 Louis XIV bestowed the usufruct of the principality on his kinsman, Louis Armand of Bourbon, Prince de Conti. After his death in 1727 the principality was deemed merged in the Crown by 1731, in this way, the territory of the principality lost its feudal and secular privileges and became a part of France. The Treaty of Utrecht allowed the King of Prussia to erect part of the duchy of Gelderland into a new Principality of Orange, the kings of Prussia and the German emperors styled themselves Princes of Orange till 1918. Several of his descendants became stadtholders and they claim the principality of Orange on the basis of agnatic inheritance, similar to that of William the Silent, who had inherited Orange from his cousin René of Châlon. They did however have a claim, albeit distant, to the principality itself due to John William Frisos descent from Louise de Coligny, who was a descendant of the original Princes of Orange. They could also claim descent from the del Balzo, an Italian branch of the des Baux family, via the marriage of Princess Anne to William IV, Prince of Orange. Anne was the eldest daughter of George II of Great Britain, Elizabeth Woodwilles grandmother was Margherita del Balzo, another descendant of Tiburge dOrange. They also claimed on the basis of the testament of Philip William, Maurice, finally, they claimed on the basis that Orange was an independent state whose sovereign had the right to assign his succession according to his will. France never recognized any of this, nor allowed the Orange-Nassaus or the Hohenzollerns to obtain anything of the principality itself, the Oranje-Nassaus nevertheless assumed the title and also erected several of their lordships into a new principality of Orange. They maintain the tradition of William the Silent and the house of Orange-Nassau, only the direct line of descent to Raimond V is shown here

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Brandenburg-Schwedt
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Brandenburg-Schwedt was a secundogeniture of the Hohenzollern margraves of Brandenburg, established by Prince Philip William who took his residence at Schwedt Castle in 1689. By appanage, they administered the manors of Schwedt and Vierraden on the Oder river as well as Wildenbruch in Pomerania, though prosperous, the cadet branch never obtained Imperial immediacy. Dutch experts and French Huguenots were invited to cultivate tobacco in the Spring of 1686, by the end of the 18th century, the Uckermark, with an area of 44 km², was the largest coherent tobacco-producing region in the Holy Roman Empire. Its three cigar factories were the most important economic driving forces in the region, for financial safeguarding of her sons, she later also purchased the Lordship of Wildenbruch and further estates. Upon the death of his mother in 1689, Philipp William, the youngest of Dorotheas sons was Margrave Christian Ludwig, officer and administrator of Halberstadt, the honoree of Bachs Brandenburg Concertos. The brisk building activity was continued by Philipp Williams son and successor, initially under the tutelage of his uncle Frederick he ruled his dominons from 1731 onwards and began to develop Schwedt into a country seat for the cadet line. In 1734 he had married his cousin Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, as he left no male heirs upon his death, Philip Williams youngest son, Frederick Henry ruled as the last Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt and developed Schwedt into a cultural center. Known for his numerous affairs, his marriage with Princess Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau likewise produced no male descendants. After Frederick Henrys death in 1788, the line of Brandenburg-Schwedt became extinct. For a few years, beginning in 1794, the castle of Schwedt was the residence of King Frederick William II of Prussias second son, the last Schwedt heiress Elisabeth Louise, daughter of Margrave Frederick William, died in 1820. Dorothea, Christian Ludwig, recipient of Bachs Brandenburg Concertos

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Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
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Princess Adelaide Adi of Saxe-Meiningen was a daughter of Prince Frederick John of Saxe-Meiningen and his wife Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Adelaide s father Prince Frederick was a son of George II of Saxe-Meiningen by his second wife Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. She had five siblings, including Prince George, a prisoner of war killed during World War II, adelaides mother, also named Adelaide, was the eldest child of Ernst, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, who was the Regent of the principality of Lippe for seven years. On 3 August 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Adelaide married Prince Adalbert of Prussia at Wilhelmshaven, Schleswig-Holstein and he was the third son of Kaiser William II of Germany. Adelaides father would die within a month, on 23 August 1914, less than a month after their marriage, Prince Adalbert was reported to have been killed in battle in Brussels. This was only a rumor however, and the prince had been unharmed, in March 1915, he was promoted to Captain in the navy and Major in the army. She and Prince Adalbert had three children, Their first daughter Victoria Marina died soon after birth, although Adelaide was reported to have been in satisfactory condition. After William II abdicated in 1918 at the end of World War I, Prince Adalbert sought refuge on his yacht, Princess Adelaide and their children soon attempted to follow, travelling by train from Kiel. They were delayed however, and eventually came to be staying in southern Bavaria with Prince Henry of Bavaria and she and Prince Adalbert were later reunited. Princess Adelaide died on 25 April 1971 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland and her husband had died 23 years earlier, on 22 September 1948, at the same location. 16 August 1891 –3 August 1914, Her Serene Highness Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen 3 August 1914 –25 April 1971, Her Royal Highness Princess Adalbert of Prussia

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Agnes of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania
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Agnes of Brandenburg was a Princess of Brandenburg by birth and by marriage successively Duchess of Pomerania and of Saxe-Lauenburg. On 25 June 1604 in Berlin, she married her first husband, the pair resided at Wolgast Castle. A folwark at Udars on the island of Rügen was named after her, in 1615, Elisabeth was involved, at the request of her husband, in the financing of a mint in Franzburg. After Philip Juliuss death, Agnes lived on her wittum, the district of Barth, dubslaff Christoph von Eickstedt auf Rothenklempenow, who had been councillor to her husband, served as her secrete cancillor and captain. Elisabeth married again on 9 September 1628, at Barth Castle, with ten years younger Duke Francis Charles of Saxe-Lauenburg, with this second marriage, she lost her rights to Barth. However, Francis Charles persuaded Wallenstein to force Duke Bogislaw XIV to allow her to keep Barth until her death, both of her marriages were childless. Samuel Buchholtz, Versuch einer Geschichte der Churmark Brandenburg,1767, p.490, Online http, //www. ruegenwalde. com/greifen/phijul/phijul. htm

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Margrave Albert Frederick of Brandenburg-Schwedt
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Albert Frederick, Prince of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, was a Lieutenant General in the army of the Electorate of Brandenburg-Prussia and Grand Master of the Order of Saint John. In his lifetime he held the title of Margrave of Brandenburg. His elder brother Philip William held the town and lands of Schwedt, Albert Frederick was a son of Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg and his second wife Sophia Dorothea. His brother Philip William was from 1692 to 1711 Governor of Magdeburg, albrecht Frederick joined the Prussian army as a volunteer in 1689, at the beginning of the War of the Palatine Succession against France. On 10 May 1692 he became head of a regiment and on 14 March 1693. In 1694 he participated in the campaign in Italy and was on 9 March 1695, the Margrave became in 1696 Grand Master of the Order of Saint John and, on 17 January 1701, one of the first knights of the Order of the Black Eagle. Beginning 14 February 1702 he fought against France as head of a regiment in the War of Spanish Succession as the commander of the Prussian corps in the Netherlands. In November of that year he had to leave this post because of illness, in 1706, he was appointed Governor in Pomerania. On 31 October 1703 Albert Frederick married with Princess Maria Dorothea, daughter of Frederick Casimir Kettler, Duke of Courland. -Anst

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Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia
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Albert Frederick was Duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death. He was a son of Albert of Prussia and Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg and he was the second and last Prussian duke of the Ansbach branch of the Hohenzollern family. Albert became Duke of Prussia after paying homage to the King of Poland, Zygmunt August. The homage was described by the Polish chronicler Jan Kochanowski in his work Proporzec, Albert Frederick initially refused to recognize the election of Stefan Bathory and supported the candidacy of Maximilian of Habsburg. However, at the Toruń sejm of October 1576 he gave his support to the new monarch and he particularly enjoyed the support of Polish Lutherans. In 1572 he began to exhibit signs of mental disorder, in early 1578, the regency was taken over by his cousin, George Frederick of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. After George Fredericks death in 1603, the Polish king Sigismund III Vasa appointed Joachim Frederick as regent in 1605, the latter became Duke of Prussia after Albert Fredericks death in 1618. Albert Frederick was married in 1573 to Marie Eleonore of Cleves, Maria was a daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. Albert Frederick and Marie were parents to seven children, Anna of Prussia, married John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg. Married Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg, married John George I, Elector of Saxony. At his death, the passed to his son-in-law John Sigismund, Margrave of Brandenburg

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Albert Wolfgang of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
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Albert Wolfgang of Brandenburg-Bayreuth was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth from the Kulmbach-Bayreuth side line of Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern. He served as a general in the imperial army, Wolfgang Albrecht was the second son of Margrave Christian Henry of Brandenburg-Bayreuth from his marriage to Sophie Christiane, the daughter of Count Albert Frederik of Wolfstein at Sulzbürg. He and his older brother George Frederick Charles grew up in Bielefeld and they studied at the University of Utrecht together. After his Grand Tour, which took him to France, England and Italy, during his military career he attained the rank of Lieutenant General. He and field marshal Claude Florimond de Mercy were killed during an attack on Crocetta castle in Parma. He was initially buried in Bayreuth, in 1742, his body was transferred to Himmelskron Abbey, julius Freiherr von Minutoli, Friedrich I. Kurfürst von Brandenburg und Memorabilia aus dem Leben der Markgrafen von Brandenburg aus den Quellen des Plassenburger Archivs, A. Duncker,1850, p.94

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Albert, Duke of Prussia
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Albert was the first European ruler to establish Lutheranism, and thus Protestantism, as the official state religion of his lands. He proved instrumental in the spread of Protestantism in its early stage. That arrangement was confirmed by the Treaty of Kraków in 1525, Albert pledged a personal oath to the King and in return was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs. Alberts rule in Prussia was fairly prosperous, Albert established schools in every town and founded Königsberg University in 1544. He promoted culture and arts, patronising the works of Erasmus Reinhold, during the final years of his rule, Albert was forced to raise taxes instead of further confiscating now-depleted church lands, causing peasant rebellion. The intrigues of the court favourites Johann Funck and Paul Skalić also led to various religious, Albert spent his final years virtually deprived of power and died at Tapiau on 20 March 1568. His son, Albert Frederick, succeeded him as Duke of Prussia, Alberts dissolution of the Teutonic State caused the founding of the Duchy of Prussia, paving the way for the rise of the House of Hohenzollern. He is therefore seen as the father of the Prussian nation. Albert was born in Ansbach in Franconia as the son of Frederick I. His mother was Sophia, daughter of Casimir IV Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, and his wife Elisabeth of Austria. He was raised for a career in the Church and spent some time at the court of Hermann IV of Hesse, Elector of Cologne, who appointed him canon of the Cologne Cathedral. Not only was he quite religious, he was interested in mathematics and science. His career was forwarded by the Church, however, and institutions of the Catholic clerics supported his early advancement, turning to a more active life, Albert accompanied Emperor Maximilian I to Italy in 1508 and after his return spent some time in the Kingdom of Hungary. Duke Frederick of Saxony, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, the new Grand Master, aware of his duties to the empire and to the papacy, refused to submit to the crown of Poland. As war over the orders existence appeared inevitable, Albert made strenuous efforts to secure allies, the ill-feeling, influenced by the ravages of members of the Order in Poland, culminated in a war which began in December 1519 and devastated Prussia. Albert was granted a four-year truce early in 1521, the dispute was referred to Emperor Charles V and other princes, but as no settlement was reached Albert continued his efforts to obtain help in view of a renewal of the war. For this purpose he visited the Diet of Nuremberg in 1522, the Grand Master then journeyed to Wittenberg, where he was advised by Martin Luther to abandon the rules of his order, to marry, and to convert Prussia into a hereditary duchy for himself. The Estates of the land then met at Königsberg and took the oath of allegiance to the new duke and this transition did not, however, take place without protest

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Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg
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Albert III, often known simply as Albert Achilles, was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. He received the cognomen Achilles because of his qualities and virtues. He also ruled the Principality of Ansbach, Albert was born in Tangermünde as the third son of Elector Frederick I and his wife, Elisabeth of Bavaria-Landshut. On the division of territory which followed his fathers death in 1440, although his resources were meager, he soon took a leading place among the German princes and was especially prominent in resisting the attempts of the towns to obtain self-government. In 1443, Albert formed a league directed mainly against Nuremberg and it was not until 1448, however, that he found a pretext for attack. The attempt to secure these thrones for the Hohenzollerns through this marriage failed, in 1470, Albert, who had inherited Bayreuth on the death of his brother John in 1464, became Margrave of Brandenburg, owing to the abdication of his remaining brother, Elector Frederick II. He was soon engaged in its administration, and by the Treaty of Prenzlau in 1472 he brought Pomerania also under his supremacy. Alberts main attention afterwards was claimed by the business of the empire, soon after taking part in the election of Maximilian as King of the Romans, Albert died at Frankfurt in March 1486. He left an amount of treasure. Aided by King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, Jan of Żagań invaded Brandenburg, first, he married 12 November 1446 Margaret of Baden, daughter of Margrave Jakob I of Baden and Catherine of Lorraine. From this marriage he had following children, Wolfgang, born, ursula, married Duke Henry I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels. Elisabeth, married Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg, margareta, abbess of the Poor Clares convent at Hof. Margaret died 24 October 1457 and in 1458 Albert married Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony and their children were, Frederick I, Margrave in Ansbach since 1486 and Bayreuth since 1495. Amalie, married Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Anna, born and died in 1462. Barbara, married, in Berlin 11 October 1472 to Duke Henry XI of Głogów, in Frankfurt 20 August 1476 to King Ladislaus II of Bohemia, Albrecht, born and died in 1466. Sibylle, married Duke Wilhelm IV of Jülich and Berg, Albrecht, born and died in 1470. Elisabeth, married Count Hermann VIII of Henneberg-Aschach Magdalene, anastasia, married Count William IV of Henneberg-Schleusingen Mario Müller, Kurfürst Albrecht Achilles. Kurfürst von Brandenburg, Burggraf von Nürnberg, Ansbach 2014, attribution, This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain, Chisholm, Hugh, ed. Albert III

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Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia
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Prince Alexander of Prussia was the only son of Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia and his wife Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. Prince Alexander of Prussia was born on 26 December 1912 to Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, August Wilhelm was a younger son of Kaiser Wilhelm II. His parents divorced in 1920 and his mother remarried less than two years later, custody of the prince was awarded to Alexanders father. As of November 1939, Prince Alexander was a first lieutenant in the Air Force Signal Corps, like his father, who became a prominent supporter of the Nazi party, Alexander also became an early supporter. Prince August had secret hopes that Chancellor Adolf Hitler would one day hoist him or his son Alexander up to the vacant throne of the Kaiser. The support father and son gave to the party caused strong disagreements among the Hohenzollerns. In 1933 Alexander quit the SA and became a private in the German regular army, in 1934, Berlin reports leaked out that the prince quit the SA because Hitler had chosen 21-year-old Alexander to succeed him as head man in Germany when he no longer can carry the torch. The report went on to say however that Joseph Goebbels was expected to oppose the princes nomination, unlike many German princes who became the targets of Hitlers mistrust and were removed from their commands in the military, Alexander was the only Hohenzollern allowed to remain at his post. On 19 December 1938 in the Dresden garrison church, Alexander non-dynastically married Armgard Weygand, daughter of Major Friedrich Weygand and she was the widow of a major in the German Air Force, and was originally from Wiesbaden, where Alexander Ferdinand was stationed. As the marriage had not been approved, none of his relatives attended the ceremony. They had one son, Prince Stephan Alexander Dieter Friedrich of Prussia, he married Heide Schmidt on 28 February 1964 and they have one daughter and four grandchildren. He remarried Hannelore-Maria Kerscher on 19 June 1981, Princess Stephanie Viktoria-Luise of Prussia, she married Amadi Mbaraka Bao on 19 April 1991. They were divorced on 20 July 1999, Prince Alexander Ferdinand died on 12 June 1985 at Wiesbaden. 26 December 1912 –19 December 1938, His Royal Highness Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia Media related to Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia at Wikimedia Commons

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Prince Alexander of Prussia
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Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Alexander of Prussia was the eldest child of Prince Frederick of Prussia and his wife, Princess Luise of Anhalt-Bernburg. Alexander joined the army at an age, and was attached to the headquarters of Crown Prince Frederick during the Austro-Prussian War. He served as a general of infantry in the Prussian army and he was also a chief of the Third West Infantry Regiment and chief of the Second Regiment of Grenadiers of the Guard in the Landwehr. In 1891, Alexander ended his cure at Marienbad and embarked for Ostend for three to four weeks and he passes the greater part of the year in Switzerland and at Burg Rheinstein, his castle on the Rhine. Traveling in Switzerland, Alexander liked to stay under the title Count de Tecklenburg and he was described as an extraordinary pedestrian, because he accomplished in twelve hours what the best walker in the valley takes sixteen hours to perform. In November 1852, Alexander went to visit his very ill friend the Duchess of Orleans at her estate at Lausanne, Switzerland, in late December 1895, Alexander was reported to be critically ill. He died at a quarter to eleven on 4 January 1896 after ailing for some time, the Emperor and Empress were at his bedside when he died. On 9 January, Alexanders funeral was held in a Berlin cathedral and his death sent the Berlin court into mourning for a month, causing the planned seasons functions and court festivities to be altered. Hunting excursions prearranged for the month were also canceled, much was written about Alexanders supposedly promiscuous ways. In her 1915 work Memories of forty years, Catherine Radziwill recalled that, though none too intelligent, was fond of society. Despite never marrying, another source said Alexander declared marriage to every woman he met, no matter if she be princess or laundress, octogenarian or young girl,21 June 1820 –4 January 1896, His Royal Highness Prince Alexander of Prussia Knight of the Black Eagle

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Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg
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Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg. She was one of ten surviving children of King Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, both children were musically inclined, but for Anna Amalia formal musical instruction was only possible after the death of her music-hating father. Music was her secret consolation against his cruelty to her, Anna Amalia learned to play the harpsichord, flute, and violin, receiving her first lessons from her brother, which her more civilized mother encouraged. But the Swedish representatives preferred Louisa Ulrika, Anna Amalia became the Abbess of Quedlinburg in 1755, which made her a wealthy woman. She chose to spend most of her time in Berlin, where she devoted herself to music, as a composer she achieved a modest amount of fame and is most known for her smaller chamber works, which included trios, marches, cantatas, songs and fugues. In 1758, Anna Amalia began a study of musical theory and composition, engaging as her tutor Johann Philipp Kirnberger. She composed chamber music, such as flute sonatas, more favorably disposed toward religious music than her brother, she set the text of Ramlers Passion cantata Der Tod Jesu to music. This was her favorite among her compositions, only a few of her works have survived. She may have destroyed many of her compositions, as she described herself as being very timorous and self-critical. However, more compositions by her may soon surface as a result of the discovery in 2000 of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin music archives in Kiev and her works of curation alone represent a significant contribution to Western culture. Her library was split between East Germany and West Germany after World War II, the two collections were re-united after the German reunification in 1990. The collection is housed at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

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Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg
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Anna of Brandenburg was a Princess of Brandenburg and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg. Anna was the eldest daughter of the Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg from his marriage to Elizabeth and she married on 17 January 1524, in Berlin with Duke Albert VII of Mecklenburg. She brought a dowry of 20000guilders into the marriage, and in return received as her jointure the city and district of Lübz, after her husbands death in 1547, she took up residence at the Eldenburg in her widow seat of Lübz. In her will, dated 25 March 1557, John Albert I had her buried in Schwerin Cathedral

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Duchess Anna of Prussia
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Duchess Anna of Prussia and Jülich-Cleves-Berg was Electress consort of Brandenburg and Duchess consort of Prussia by marriage to John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg. She was the daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia, Anna was married to John Sigismund on 30 October 1594. This was a match of exceptional importance, since Anna was not only heir to Prussia. Anna was described as superior to her spouse, temperamental. She is reported to have thrown plates and glasses at her spouse during arguments and she fought on her own to secure her succession rights to various fiefs and handled negotiations with her competitors. In 1612, she placed her demands before the Emperor, after the conversion of her spouse to Calvinism, Anna became the protector and spokesperson of the Lutherans. She continued to play an important role during the reign of her son and she opposed the Habsburgs and secured the marriage of her daughter Maria Eleonora to the King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden against her sons will in 1620. George William, successor of John Sigismund, anne Sophia of Brandenburg, married Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, married Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and they were parents of Christina of Sweden. Catherine of Brandenburg, married first Gabriel Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania and secondly Franz Karl of Saxe-Lauenburg

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Princess Anna of Prussia
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Princess Maria Anna Friederike was a Princess of Prussia. Anna was the youngest of the three children of Prince Charles of Prussia and Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, as a beautiful young princess, she was the object of much attention at court. In the winter of 1852, the young Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria met her in Berlin, fell in love, however, Anna was already engaged at that time, and as an added complication, there were strong feelings against an alliance with Austria among Prussian statesmen. On 26 May 1853, Anna married Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel at Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Anna was the second wife of her new husband, who nine years previously had experienced the traumatic death in childbirth of his beloved first wife, Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia. They had six children, Prince Frederick William III of Hesse, Princess Elisabeth Alexandra Charlotte of Hesse, married Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt and had issue. Prince Alexander Frederick of Hesse, married Baroness Gisela Stockhorner von Starheim and had issue, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, King of Finland, married Princess Margaret of Prussia and had issue. Princess Marie-Polyxene of Hesse, died at age 10 of osteomyelitis, Princess Sybille Marguerite of Hesse, married Baron Friedrich von Vincke. Victoria, Princess Royal wrote of Anna and she was the subject of one of the most famous paintings by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, in which she is depicted wearing a sweeping dress of tulle over pink silk. She herself was a trained pianist of great talent and ability who studied under Theodor Kullak. Brahms dedicated his Piano Quintet to her in 1865, unusually for a Hessian landgravine, she converted to Catholicism in 1901, which led to political complications. Anna died on 12 June 1918, in Frankfurt at the age of 82 and she is buried in Fulda Cathedral before the altar to St. Anne. The Latin inscription is, Hic iacet Serenissima Landgrafia Hassiae ANNA Principissa Borussiae nata Berolini die 17, maii 1836 obiit Francofurti die 12. Junii 1918 + Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo R. I. P, Dame of the Order of Louise Spain, 795th Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa -

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Anna of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg
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Anna of Saxony was a princess of Saxony by birth and Electress of Brandenburg by marriage. Anna was a daughter of the Elector Frederick II of Saxony from his marriage to Margaret of Austria, on 12 November 1458 Anna married Albert Achilles of Brandenburg, later Elector Albert III Achilles, in Ansbach. As her Wittum, Anna received Hoheneck Castle and district, plus Leutershausen, through her marriage, she became stepmother to Albert Achilless four children from his earlier marriage with Margaret of Baden. At the time of Annas marriage, Albert Achilles held all the Franconian possessions of the Hohenzollerns, in 1470, he also inherited the Electorate of Brandenburg. In 1473 Anna agreed to a new House law, which made Mark Brandenburg indivisible and this meant that John Cicero, Albert Achilless son from his first marriage, would become Elector of Brandenburg, but Annas two sons would inherite the Frankish possessions. Albert Achilles specified in his will that Anna was entitled to income and residency in Neustadt an der Aisch, Erlangen, Dachsbach, Baiersdorf and her sons, however, would retain sovereignty over those territories. Anna survived her husband by 26 years and resided mostly in Neustadt an der Aisch, Anna died in 1512 and was buried in Heilsbronn Abbey. The memorial on her tomb was built about 1502 and is still preserved,37 ff Daniel Martin Ernst Kirchner, The electresses and queens on the throne of the Hohenzollerns

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Anne Catherine of Brandenburg
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Anne Catherine of Brandenburg was queen-consort of Denmark and Norway from 1597 to 1612 as the first spouse of King Christian IV of Denmark. Anne Catherine was born in Halle and raised in Wolmirstedt and her parents were Joachim Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg and his first wife Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin. Christian met her on his journey in Germany in 1595 and decided to marry her, in 1596, Anne Catherine and her parents were present at his coronation, and the next year, the marriage was arranged. Anne Catherine became Queen of Denmark on 27 November 1597 when she was married to Christian IV, the wedding took place in the castle of Haderslevhus in South Jutland the year after the coronation of Christian IV. She was crowned queen in 1598, together they had six children, among them Christian, the Prince-Elect, who died a year before his father, and Frederik III who introduced absolute monarchy in Denmark. Her son, Ulrik, was murdered in 1633 and their two daughters, Sophia and Elisabeth, and the elder son, Frederick, died at a very young age. Anne Catherine was the first wife of Christian IV, but not much is known about her and she does not seem to have had much political influence. She often accompanied the King on his travels, in her time, she was praised for her modesty and deep religious feelings. There is no mention as to whether the marriage was happy or not, the building of the Rosenborg Castle began while she was queen, but the extent of her influence on the building and its interior is not known. Despite her good relationship with the Lutheran archbishop, she called upon a Calvinist vicar to give her the last sacrament on her death bed and she died in Copenhagen and was buried in the Roskilde Cathedral. Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark died in infancy, Christian, Hereditary Prince of Denmark married Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony. Frederick III married Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg and had issue, Ulrik, Prince-Bishop of Schwerin died unmarried. Article in the Dansk biografisk Lexikon Queen Anna Cathrine at the website of the Royal Danish Collection

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Princess Augusta of Prussia
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Princess Augusta of Prussia was a German salonist and Electress consort of Hesse. She was the daughter and fifth child of Frederick William II of Prussia. She was the first consort of William II, Elector of Hesse, among the messages left by her works are also self-portraits. The marriage of Augusta was politically arranged and unhappy, Augusta and William often came to conflict with one another, which led to aggressive confrontations. In 1806, Hesse was occupied by France, Augusta was in Berlin with her children at the time, and when the army of Napoleon headed toward Berlin, she remained in the capital because of her pregnancy when it was taken by France. Napoleon put guards around her house and gave orders that she should not be disturbed, with Hesse and Prussia occupied and her family in exile, Augusta lacked money, and after her childs birth, she asked for a meeting with Napoleon. She appeared before him with her baby on her arm and one of her children by the hand and asked him for an allowance. After the birth of her last child in 1806, the relationship between Augusta and William was unofficially terminated and in 1815, they agreed to separate and kept separate households. Auguste closed her salon in 1823, and between 1826 and 1831 she lived in The Hague, Koblenz, Bonn and Fulda and she returned to Kassel in 1831. Augusta was regarded as a skillful painter, on 13 February 1797 in Berlin, Augusta married Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, eldest surviving son of William IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. In 1803, the Landgrave was raised to Elector of Hesse, several months after Augustas death, William remarried to his longtime mistress Emilie Ortlöpp, Countess of Reichenbach-Lessonitz, by whom he had an additional eight children. Wilhelm Karoline Luise Frederick William, Elector of Hesse married Gertrude Lehmann, marie, married Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and had issue

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Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia
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Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia was a Prussian Prince and general, and Herrenmeister of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Order of Saint John. He belonged to the House of Hohenzollern, and was the youngest son of Frederick William I of Prussia by his wife Queen Sophia Dorothea and he was the youngest child of King Frederick William I of Prussia and his wife Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. He was also a brother of King Frederick the Great, Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden. Already at the age of 5, he joined the Infantry regiment „Kronprinz“, in 1740, his brother named him commander of Infantry regiment Nr 34. In 1756, he became Major General and accompanied his brother the King on his campaigns in Saxony and he fought in the Battle of Breslau and the Battle of Leuthen. But in 1758, bad health forced him to leave the army, on September 12,1763, Ferdinand was elected as Master of the Knights of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Order of Saint John, a post he held until 1812. Ferdinand is also remembered for having the Schloss Bellevue in the Berliner Tiergarten built and he married his niece, Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, on 27 September 1755. She was a daughter of his older sister Sophia Dorothea and her husband Margrave Frederick William of Brandenburg-Schwedt, despite this family tie, she was only eight years younger than he, due to the significant age difference between him and his sister. They had seven children, Princess Friederike Elisabeth Dorothea Henriette Amalie Prince Friedrich Heinrich Emil Karl Princess Friederike Luise, Prince Friedrich Christian Heinrich Ludwig Prince Louis Ferdinand, killed in the Battle of Saalfeld. Prince Friedrich Paul Heinrich August Prince Augustus, never married, Augustus died in Berlin on 2 May 1813, as the last surviving grandchild of George I of Great Britain. Elisabeth Louise would die seven years later, on 10 February 1820, the Peerage, August Ferdinand Prinz von Preußen. Family Tree at the Wayback Machine

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Prince Augustus William of Prussia
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Augustus William of Prussia was Prince of Prussia and a younger brother and general of Frederick II. Augustus was the surviving son of Frederick William I and Sophia Dorothea. His older siblings included Wilhelmina, Frederick II, Friedrike Louise, Augustus was favored by his father over Frederick and popular at the Prussian court. When his brother Frederick became king in 1740, Augustus became heir-apparent and moved into the Fredricks former residence, when his older sister Louisa Ulrika married the King of Sweden in1744, she founded the L’Ordre de l’Harmonie, of which Augustus was one of the first recipients. Augustus served his brother as a general in the War of the Austrian Succession, and distinguished himself in the Battle of Hohenfriedberg. But in the Seven Years War, owing to the retreat of Zittau during the Battle of Kolin in 1756, he incurred the wrath of his brother the King. This conflict between the two led to a correspondence, which was published in 1769. In reality, he died from a brain tumor, because his older brother had no children, Augustuss oldest son inherited the throne as Frederick William II of Prussia on Fredericks death. Frederick William II of Prussia married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg and they had one child Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, who married Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, the second son of George III of the United Kingdom. Married Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt and had issue, Prince Henry of Prussia died unmarried. Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia married William V, Prince of Orange and had issue, Prince Emil of Prussia died in infancy. 9 August 1722 –12 June 1758 His Royal Highness Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia German nobility Junker Media related to Prince Augustus William of Prussia at Wikimedia Commons

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Barbara of Brandenburg, Marquise of Mantua
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Barbara of Brandenburg was a Marchioness consort of Mantua, married in 1433 to Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua. Barbara was the daughter of John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Barbara of Saxe-Wittenberg and her marriage took place in 1433, when she was only ten years old, and she spent the latter part of her childhood in Mantua. She was active as the adviser of her spouse with the responsibility of foreign diplomatic correspondence. She is regarded as an important figure in the Italian Renaissance and was a student of Vittorino da Feltre, Barbara is portrayed in the novel The Princess of Mantua by French writer Marie Ferranti. During her marriage, Barbara gave birth fourteen children, Federico, francesco, created Cardinal by Pope Pius II. Gianfrancesco, Count of Sabbioneta and Lord of Bozzolo, married Antonia del Balzo, susanna, a nun at Santa Paola di Mantua. Dorotea, married to Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, cecilia, a nun at Santa Chiara di Mantua. Rodolfo, Lord of Castiglione delle Stiviere, Solferino, Suzzara and Poviglio, married firstly Antonia Malatesta, Barbara, married in 1474 Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg. Paola, married Leonhard, Count of Gorizia

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Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg
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Barbara Sophia of Brandenburg was the daughter of the Catherine of Küstrin and Elector of Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg. She was married to Duke John Frederick of Württemberg and after his death guardian for their minor son, on 5 November 1609 she married Duke John Frederick of Württemberg, eldest son of Frederick I and Sibylla of Anhalt. On the occasion of marriage he had the Urach Palace in Bad Urach renovated, the Golden Hall was constructed. They apparently had a happy marriage. In 1630, she began a renovation of Brackenheim Castle. The castle contained an art room with 155 paintings, at the time the second largest collection in Württemberg, the art room was well preserved until her death, despite the Thirty Years War ravaging the country around it. During the renovation of her castle, she lived at Schloss Kirchheim Castle in Kirchheim unter Teck and she never lived in Brackenheim, despite the Castle, the city and the district forming her wittum. Nevertheless, she was considered a benefactor of the city, due to her dedication to the city during the Thirty Years War, when her husband died, her 14-year-old son Eberhard III was still a minor and his uncle Louis Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard acted as regent. After Frederick Louis died on 26 January 1631, the regency was taken up by Sophie Barbara and Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen and she therefore moved back to Stuttgart in 1632 and became politically active. After the Battle of Lutzen in late 1632, Julius Frederick joined the war on the Swedish side and his goal was to drive enemy troops out of the country, as well as the Catholic former owners of secularized church properties. Despite his successes, he was accused of acting selfishly, the councillors and the Estates managed to drive him out of the regency. After Emperor Ferdinand II declared Eberhard III to be an adult and he joined the Protestant Heilbronn League which on suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Nördlingen of 6 September 1634. Württemberg was then looted and pillaged, Duke Eberhard and his entire court hastily fled into exile in Strasbourg. Barbara Sophia died in Strasbourg in 1636 and was buried in the Stiftskirche,1,1980, p. 1-4 Kat, Das unbekannte Altbekannte, Künstler sehen das historische Zabergäu, Brackenheim,2004, p.5 Publications by or about Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg at VD17

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Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach
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Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe Louise of Saxe-Eisenach, was a German princess member of the House of Wettin and through her two marriages was Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Electress of Saxony. Eleonore Erdmuthe Louise was the eldest child of John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, in Eisenach on 4 November 1681, Eleonore married firstly John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach as his second wife. They had three children, Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, married George II of Great Britain and had issue, Margrave Frederick Augustus of Brandenburg-Ansbach, died in infancy. William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach married Duchess Christiane Charlotte of Württemberg, daughter of Frederick Charles, after the death of her husband, the government of Brandenburg-Ansbach passed to her stepson Christian Albert, who being a minor ruled under a regency. In November 1691 Eleonore also arrived in Berlin to actively participate in the negotiations of her second marriage, in Leipzig on 17 April 1692, Eleonore married secondly John George IV, Elector of Saxony and moved with her children to Dresden, where the Saxon court was established. The union proved to be unsuccessful, John George IV lived openly with Billa, in addition, the Electress suffered two miscarriages during their marriage, in August 1692 and February 1693, and a phantom pregnancy in December 1693. During this time, Eleonore confided in the English diplomat George Stepney, who wrote extensively about her, John George IV died on 27 April 1694 from smallpox after being infected by the dying Billa. The new Elector, Frederick Augustus I allowed the Dowager Electress and her children to remain in Pretzsch and she was buried at Freiberg Cathedral. George Frederick II, as well as his predecessor, was a minor and ruled under a regency,338 p. google. books. com Beatty, Michael A. The English Royal Family of America, from Jamestown to the American Revolution,261 p. ISBN0786415584, ISBN9780786415588. Johann Georg IV. von Sachsen und Magdalena Sibylla von Neitschütz - Eine tödliche Liaison, wives of the Kings of England, From Hanover to Windsor. 182 p. ISBN0720612713, ISBN9780720612714, pleasure and Ambition, The Life, Loves and Wars of Augustus the Strong, 1670-1707. ISBN0857715712, ISBN9780857715715 google. books. com Van der Kiste, stroud, Gloucestershire, The History Press,2013. 240 p. ISBN0750954485, ISBN9780750954488, britains Royal Families, The Complete Genealogy. 400 p. ISBN1446449114, ISBN9781446449110

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Christian William of Brandenburg
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Christian Wilhelm of Brandenburg was a titular Margrave of Brandenburg, and from 1598 to 1631 Archbishop of Magdeburg. Christian Wilhelm was a son of Elector Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg from his first marriage with Catherine and he was elected as Archbishop of Magdeburg in 1598. However, the city of Magdeburg did not recognnize him as Prince-Bishop, when he married in 1614, he assumed the title of Lutheran administrator on. That same year, he became coadjutor of Halberstadt. In 1624, he became administrator of Halberstadt, during the Thirty Years War, he entered into an alliance with Denmark. In 1626, he led an army from Lower Saxony into the Battle of Dessau Bridge, after Wallenstein won this battle, he fled abroad. In 1629, he fled to the court of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, in 1630, he returned to Germany. The cathedral chapter of Magdeburg formally deposed him in 1631, Sweden promised to assist him when he attempted to reconquer his Archbishopric. Nevertheless, the reconquest failed and he was injured during the siege of Magdeburg in 1631. He was taken up in the army camp Pappenheim, where his wounds were tended, a pamphlet with the title Speculum veritatis was published in his name, and he was released. Under the Peace of Prague of 1635, he received a sum of 12000 taler from the revenues of the archbishopric of Magdeburg, plus the districts Loburg. In 1651, he purchased the Nový Hrad estate in Bohemia and he died at Zinna Abbey in 1665. His first wedding took place on 1 January 1615 in Wolfenbüttel, where he married Dorothea, on 28 May 1657 he married, again in Prague, to Maximiliane, a daughter of Count Weichard of Salm-Neuburg

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Magdalena of Brandenburg, Countess of Hohenzollern
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Magdalene of Brandenburg was a German noblewoman. She was a princess of Brandenburg by birth and by marriage a Duchess of Hohenzollern, Magdalena was the only child of Margrave Frederick III of Brandenburg-Altmark from his marriage to Agnes, daughter of the Duke Barnim VIII of Pomerania. She married on 17 June 1482 in the Berlin City Palace to Count Eitel Friedrich II of Hohenzollern and this marriage formed an important connection for the House of Hohenzollern, as it strengthened the bond between the Swabian and Brandenburg branches of the house. Magdalena became the ancestress of the Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen lines, Magdalena died in 1496 and was buried in the collegiate church of St. James in Hechingen. The grave plate is considered a work of art in Hechingen. The following children were born from the marriage of Eitel Frederick and Magdalena of Brandenburg, Francis Wolfgang, married c

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Anna of Brandenburg
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Anna of Brandenburg was a German noblewoman. Anna was the daughter of Johann Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg and she was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, and died in Kiel, Holstein. In 1500 she was betrothed to Frederick, then Duke of Schleswig and Holstein and, after her death, king of Denmark, because they were second cousins their marriage required a Papal dispensation. In addition, the marriage was not held until 10 April 1502 due to Annas youth, the marriage, held in Stendal, was a double one, on the same day, Annas brother Joachim and Fredericks niece Elisabeth were married. Anna and Frederick had two children, Christian III of Denmark Dorothea, married 1 July 1526 to Albert, Duke of Prussia She died in 1514 at age 26 and her husband was remarried, to Sophie of Pomerania, and had six more children. Media related to Anna of Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons

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Sophie of Brandenburg
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Sophie of Brandenburg was a Princess of Brandenburg and by marriage Electress of Saxony. From 1591 she was the regent of Saxony during the minority of her son Christian II, on 25 April 1582 in Dresden, Sophie married Elector Christian I of Saxony. Sophie was 14 years old at her wedding, and after a year she had her first child. After the death of her husband, who died at the age of only 31, Sophie, together with Duke Frederick William I of Saxe Weimar, Sophie was an orthodox Lutheran, and fought against crypto-Calvinism in Saxony. In allusion to the pious widow Judith in the Book of Judith, as a widow, Sophie lived in the so-called Fraumutterhaus in Dresden or in Castle Colditz. She had her own coins minted, she also had the old Franciscan church in Dresden again readied for divine service. The Duchesss Garden also takes its name from Duchess Sophie, by her marriage, Sophie had the following children, Christian II, successor of his father as Elector. John George I, successor of his brother as Elector, Sophie, married on 26 August 1610 to Duke Francis I of Pomerania. Augustus, married on 1 January 1612 to Elisabeth of Brünswick-Wolfenbüttel, Franz Blanckmeister, Kurfürstin Anna Sophie von Sachsen, eine evangelische Bekennerin, Barmen Franz Otto Stichart, Galerie der Sächsischen Fürstinnen, Biogr. Leipzig 1857 Ute Essegern, Fürstinnen am kursächsischen Hof, Leipziger Universitätsverlag,2007 http, //www. neumarkt-dresden. de/nikolaus-krell. html http, //www. geneall. net/D/per_page. php. id=16340

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